QM, the Fighting Storekeeper
Before he could fight
again, David had to
hunt another stone.
With a tommy gun he
could have fired around
800 shots a minute,
killing not only the
giant but also scores
of other enemies.
Thus, with powder,
man multiplies the
power and speed of his
weapons.
One man
with a rifle is the basic
unit of all fighting
forces.
Millions of
such men, added to
gether, make up our
big Army.
Magnify t h e rifle,
and you get all the
most powerful weapons
now known to military
science, from antiair
craft guns to 16-inch
coast defense rifles that
shoot 30 to 35 miles.
With one finger a
gunner can press gently
on a button and let
loose shooting power
enough to sink a ship
miles away.
In 16 dramatic
paintings Artist Arthur
Beaumont vividly
shows in this issue of
the NATIONAL GEO
GRAPHIC MAGAZINE
some aspects of the
terrific po wer and
striking force of Uncle
Sam's fighting
ma
chines (Plates I-XVI).
How fast our new
Staff Photographer J. Baylor Roberts
Tall, Short, Fat, Lean-All Sizes of Uniforms Are Stocked
This nook in the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot shows only a few of the
thousands of patterns from which garments are cut. The Quartermaster is the
world's biggest tailor. Uniforms are designed and tested here for many varied
climates-for those of Egypt, Panama, the Caribbean area, Australia; and
for England, Iceland, Hawaii, New Zealand, and other faraway islands.
well-fed, well-clothed
Army moves! Roaring, fire-belching tanks
supplant the old cavalry charge.
Big air
bombers themselves are really long-range can
non that fly maybe 2,000 miles and then shoot
point-blank at their target!
Small quartermaster units are attached to
this air force. They operate in combat areas.
They work under camouflage, bake bread in
fox holes, and get supplies into jungle bases.
No science moves faster than war, even if it
is "organized waste."
It took 50 oxen hours
to drag a muzzle-loading cannon up a hill in
the Siege of Constantinople-and then it threw
a solid shot only a few hundred yards. Now
a bomber can "throw"-i.e., carry-four or
five tons of high explosive 1,000 miles in three
hours and with them utterly wreck forts, fac
tories, bridges, docks, whole blocks of brick
buildings, and sink ships.
Yes, Some Soldiers Still Ride Horses!
Roman war chariots were the tanks of that
day. One man drove the team, while his mate
shot arrows or threw spears. Both wore
armor. Today it's the whole "chariot" tank
that's armored. One man still drives, but at
30 or 40 miles an hour, and instead of arrows
and spears the tank's gunner fires cannon and
sprays of machine-gun bullets.
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